Tim Jensen's Media-rich, not-so-risk-free Reading Responses
(1) An audio response to chapters in Literate Lives in the Information Age by Hawisher and Selfe
(2) An image / text response to Writing Spaces (2001) by Bolter.
Is that a rhizome in your pocket or are you just ...
Attached is the image that burst into my mind in the middle pages of Chapter 3. It's from the beginning of Deleuze and Guattari's amazing (and amazingly impenetrable) book A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, where they spend a lot of time talking about how they work metaphorically for philosophy.
I had other images in mind, but rich associations of the rhizome with Bolter's description of text/hypertext and hierarchy was too much to resist. I know I'm perhaps bending the rules by using a bunch of text to describe my image, but the image might deserve it (and cheating a bit with extra images).
Bamboo grows rhizomatically; beneath the ground is a series of linked nodes that have no center. They grow in a multiplicity of non-hierarchical points--entry and exit at every node.
Similarly, Bolter says the following about hypertext: "There need not be any privileged element in a network, as there always in a tree, no single topic that dominates all others. Instead of subordination, we have paths that weave their way through a textual space" (34).
Deleuze and Guattari write, "A rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things ... The tree is filiation, but the rhizome is alliance, uniquely alliance. The tree imposes the verb "to be," but the fabric of the rhizome is conjunction, "and . . . and . . . and" This conjunction carries enough force to shake and uproot the verb "to be." Where are you going? Where are you coming from? What are you heading for? These are totally useless questions" (24-25).
But Bolter writes the following about text, "The hierarchy [of the text] (in the form of paragraphs, sections, and chapters) is an attempt to impose order on verbal ideas that are always prone to subvert that order. The associative relationships define alternative organizations that lie beneath the order of pages and chapters that a printed text presents to its readers" (32).
In both cases we have similar meaning-making that takes place subversively, under the cover of superficial vision. I need more time (and reading) to flush this out . . .
(3) A video response to The Language of New Media by Manovich
Tim Jensen's Media-rich, not-so-risk-free Reading Responses
(1) An audio response to chapters in Literate Lives in the Information Age by Hawisher and Selfe
(2) An image / text response to Writing Spaces (2001) by Bolter.
Is that a rhizome in your pocket or are you just ...
Attached is the image that burst into my mind in the middle pages of Chapter 3. It's from the beginning of Deleuze and Guattari's amazing (and amazingly impenetrable) book A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, where they spend a lot of time talking about how they work metaphorically for philosophy.I had other images in mind, but rich associations of the rhizome with Bolter's description of text/hypertext and hierarchy was too much to resist. I know I'm perhaps bending the rules by using a bunch of text to describe my image, but the image might deserve it (and cheating a bit with extra images).
Bamboo grows rhizomatically; beneath the ground is a series of linked nodes that have no center. They grow in a multiplicity of non-hierarchical points--entry and exit at every node.
Similarly, Bolter says the following about hypertext: "There need not be any privileged element in a network, as there always in a tree, no single topic that dominates all others. Instead of subordination, we have paths that weave their way through a textual space" (34).
We're tired of trees.
Deleuze and Guattari write, "A rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things ... The tree is filiation, but the rhizome is alliance, uniquely alliance. The tree imposes the verb "to be," but the fabric of the rhizome is conjunction, "and . . . and . . . and" This conjunction carries enough force to shake and uproot the verb "to be." Where are you going? Where are you coming from? What are you heading for? These are totally useless questions" (24-25).
But Bolter writes the following about text, "The hierarchy [of the text] (in the form of paragraphs, sections, and chapters) is an attempt to impose order on verbal ideas that are always prone to subvert that order. The associative relationships define alternative organizations that lie beneath the order of pages and chapters that a printed text presents to its readers" (32).
In both cases we have similar meaning-making that takes place subversively, under the cover of superficial vision. I need more time (and reading) to flush this out . . .
(3) A video response to The Language of New Media by Manovich